Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963) inaugurates our Artists in Conversation Edition. Sincerity, courage, consistency, and intensity were traits that marked Hartmann's life and work. During the war, he buried the manuscripts of his compositions far underground, he had his son Richard safely stowed away with his grandparents and, from the earliest days of the Nazi regime, he began his inner emigration, withdrawing into himself and into his work room. From this earliest phase of his inner emigration date, among other works, the first string quartet, the first symphony and the symphonic poem Miserae.